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There are no set rules. You must combine common sense and fashion sense every time. You wouldn't wear satin to the super-market!

Like colour in shoes, colour in gloves is a matter of taste and trends. If it's a "purple" year, you may decide that your purple suits looks best with matching gloves. Or purple gloves may be the single note of purple in your wardrobe...to be worn as an accent with brown or blue or beige or grey.

If you are conventional at heart, it should make you happy to know that black and white and beige are always in fashion and can be worn with any colour. The beige family is not only basic but versatile including a wide range of shades from sand, bone, chamois, tan to chocolate--and all the browns from mocha to mink.

Accent colours are usually subtle off-shades in very bright versions: avocado or chartreuse or grass green, sharp lemon yellow, bright red, bright orange, shocking pink, turquoise blue, purple.

Pastels (pale pink, blue, lavender, yellow, green) belong to summer weekends, garden parties, country club dances, weddings.

Your over-all rule for colour is match--or contrast. If you are matching, you may use lighter or darker shades in the same colour family, such as paler or darker blues, reds, greens. You will never confuse hues: a red with blue in it is quite diff- erent from the red with yellow in it. You won't wear a brick-red glove with a wine-red suit! The rules for choosing an interesting contrast are like the texture story: a matter for your own critical eye and your own revealing mirror for an over-all effect.

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